The Talk of the Town (1927–1946)

Featured Films:

061. The Advent of Sound

• Part 1. Early Synchronized Sound

• The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894/1895)
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1900)
• Anna, What Are You Waiting For? (1911)
• Jack’s Joke (1913)
• Eubie Blake Plays His Fantasy on Swanee River (1923)
• Gus Visser and His Singing Duck (1925)
• Introductory Speech by Will H. Hays (1926)

• Part 2. The Jazz Singer (Crosland, 1927)

062. Blackmail (Hitchcock, 1929)

063. Under the Roofs of Paris (Clair, 1930)

064. The Blue Angel (von Sternberg, 1930)

065. M (Lang, 1931)

066. King Kong (Cooper & Schoedsack, 1933)

067. Frankenstein (Whale, 1931)

068. Scarface (Hawks, 1932)

069. 42nd Street (Bacon, 1933)

070. It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934)

072. Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch, 1932)

071. Shanghai Express (von Sternberg, 1932)

073. Bringing Up Baby (Hawks, 1938)

074. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra, 1939)

075. Stagecoach (Ford, 1939)

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063. The Private Life of Henry VIII (Korda, 1933)

064. L’Atalante (Vigo, 1934)

065. Port of Shadows (Carné, 1938)

066. The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)

067. Devdas (Barua, 1935)

068. Osaka Elegy (Mizoguchi, 1936)

069. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi, 1939)

070. Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein, 1938)

071. Stagecoach (Ford, 1939)

072. Bringing Up Baby (Hawks, 1938)

073. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra, 1939)

074. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)

075. Gone with the Wind (Fleming, 1939)

076. Dance, Girl, Dance (Arzner, 1940)

077. Sullivan’s Travels (Sturges, 1941)

078. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

079. The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940)

080. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)

081. Fires Were Started (Jennings, 1943)

082. The 47 Ronin (Mizoguchi, 1941–1942)

083. Ivan the Terrible, Parts I & II (Eisenstein, 1945–1946*)

084. Children of Paradise (Carné, 1945)